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By Anupam Dutta Anupam is a Kolkata-based wildlife photographer and writer with a special interest in birds and their habitats. He is also a technology and business professional and a Partner at Aeka Advisors. His portfolio can be viewed at https://anupamdutta.in/. Sulawesi, in the Indonesian archipelago, is home to an extraordinary variety of wildlife, including birds found ...

Could you introduce the fair and tell us how it began? We held the first Jackson Hole Birding Festival in 2025. It was born out of our love for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) and what we saw as a lack of birding festivals in the region. We also felt that the area is underrated as a birding destination, as a lot of focus is (rightly) on magnificent megafauna like wolv...

This post is republished in our “From the Archives” series, featuring highlights of our vast back catalogue of more than 10,000 birding-related posts published over the last 15 years or so. Originally published on October 11, 2013. It required a bit of an ethical adjustment. Here I was, sitting patiently in a blind, watching a tethered European Starling on a string. When a ha...

Most birding trips to Namibia treat Windhoek as a place to pick up the rental car and move further afield. But Windhoek’s high elevation of about 1,700 metres asl and thornveld surroundings mean birding within city limits can be surprisingly rewarding. I recently spent a few days in the city between stints of human-elephant conflict research that I was conducting in the north...